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[edit] Welcome
I wonder why you are reading this.........I'm not very interesting......... dot dot dot
Anyway, if you still feel like reading, I shall indulge to you the mysteries surrounding my life.
Continue!
[edit] About me
My name is Brian User:Novaprospekt Birnbaum. I am 17 years old, go to Long Beach Senior High School and be generalized, by most standards, as a dork.
I officially joined Wikipedia in May 2006 though I had been a viewer/user for a long time prior to joining. I sought to change several inconsistencies I saw in fields I was familiar in, such as topics of college level biology which I had studied this year; along with lore information in my absolute favorite game, World of Warcraft.
I am very interested in online games, primarily MMORPGs while also enjoying FPS games such as Halo 2, the Half-Life 2 series and mods, and other shooters for the XBOX 360 or PC. As previously mentioned, my favorite MMORPG as of this moment is World of Warcraft. I will not list the plethora of reasons why I like the game, just know that I do and many of my friends feel I am unhealthily obsessed with it.
Prior to WoW, I spent countless hours of my life playing MMO's such as Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes/City of Villains, PlanetSide and Anarchy Online.
I suppose if you're -still- interested about me, you can read on into detailed sections on my status or history in each of the aforementioned games -- you may know of me!
[edit] Anarchy Online
I feel it's appropriate to start with the MMORPG that got me hooked on the genre. Back, several years ago (perhaps 5-6, I lost count), I purchased this wonder of a sci-fi game and started my first MMO character; a solitus doctor. He was named, appropriately, Drmarkgreen which was a tribute to the popular TV show ER and it's late main character Mark Green.
I managed to level that character up to 185 before burning out from the dreadful grind to 200 (at that time) which caused me to lose desire to continue playing.
After my hiatus from the game, I began a new character with a main focus on PvP or player-vs-player combat. I considered Drmarkgreen to be a failure -- many skill points were carelessly spent because I was unfamiliar with the game and my gear and reputation flat out sucked (I was pretty immature). My new character, named Notumsurrrge, which reflected on the games source of energy (Notum), was a nano-technician which I also managed to level to 185 (ironically). Notumsurrrge, actually turned out to be a huge success - in that he was a great pvping character. I quickly gained respect from other PvP'ers because I was good at my class. There were very few decent PvPing NT's (Nano-technicians) largely in part to AO's poor design and balance between melee and "caster" classes. For those unfamiliar with the classes, NT is equivalent to the wizard in D&D-esque games. I also gained respect because I was such a low level PvP-ing NT. If I recall correctly, level 80 is where I obtained the Rookie title and was at the peak of my game.
For that amount of time, I was in the popular clan-sided organization Demolition Squad which was composed of many low level PvP-twink alts from the top-tiered guilds.
I decided to level Notumsurrrge one day, hoping to achieve 220 (which was a futile aspiration since the grind to 220 was ridiculously time consuming) and when I outgrew most of my PvP gear and class viability -- (the balance between melee and caster classes dooms NT's once they level up... melee keeps getting better while casters decline) -- I left Demolition Squad and joined the top-end clan guild Redemption.
After some good times with Redemption, my interest in AO waned for good and I stopped playing shortly after. Though AO was not totally a waste of time (seeing as I didn't finish any characters) --- I managed to pick up some basic Swedish after playing with and befriending many Swedes in the game. AO is developed and maintained by Funcom, a Norwegian-based company which translated into a large Scandinavian populace in the game.
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- To be continued
